A/N: Okay so i finished it already. I just really get into the swing of things sometimes:p Thank you SO SO much everyone for following and favouriting this story etc, it's been really great to write. I'll have more fics coming your way soon!

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"We… we can explain." Emma stuttered, as she pulled on her shirt one-handed, while Regina straightened her skirt and brushed her hair back into place, leaping off the desk as if it were on fire.

"This is magic lessons? Has magic become a secret code-word that I'm not aware of? You lie to us, and make us babysit your son while you have sex with our daughter?!" David sounded horrified, and directed his anger towards Regina. "We may have come a long way, Regina, we may be beginning to trust you again, but having sex with our daughter while you are supposed to be catching a witch on the loose is another story."

"We told you not to leave the house! It's not safe for you guys, or the baby, out here!" Emma tried to divert the conversation, while perching awkwardly on the top of a chair back.

"Don't try and change the subject, young lady." Mary Margaret's mothering-instinct came to the fore. "We got another call about someone in the crypt again. We needed you two to check what was happening."

"And you couldn't have called us on the phone?" Emma was turning redder and redder, trying to hide her face behind strands of hair.

"You know what? I really wish we had now. Then you could've carried on your secret fling in secret." David seemed disgusted by the word fling: not at the fact that it was with Regina, but rather the fact that it was, from what he saw, a purely sexual affair.

"Calm down, both of you." Regina scolded them slightly, "I don't know what you think is going on between myself and Emma, but I'll set you straight. We love each other."

"Oh god…" Mary Margaret moaned, as if she didn't believe it.

"We do. I love your daughter more than any other thing on this earth, besides Henry. Though you'd be in no position to tell her to stop seeing me; you wouldn't be able to anyway. I can never again imagine myself not being in love with Emma. Her and Henry have became everything to me. The fact that I ever deprived you of getting to be with her as she grew up is something that is haunting me more and more, because you deserve to know what an incredible daughter you have. I love her, okay? I LOVE HER." Regina shouted a little, as if to further substantiate her point. As she did, a familiar surge went through the earth; and as the ground shook memories came flooding back to her.

"It's Zelena." She exclaimed, as the other three in the room began to check they were okay.

"Yeah, we know." David replied, "she's staying at Granny's."

The four of them left Regina's office, and while Emma tried to force the two of them to go back to their apartment with Henry to be protected, they refused to leave her and Regina to fight alone.

"I may be pregnant, but that doesn't mean I can't be there to support you." Mary Margaret insisted as she struggled to keep up the pace. Her and her husband remained outside the clock tower, while Regina grabbed Emma's hand and transported them to Zelena's room at Granny's.

"Get out here, Witch.." Emma accentuated the last word of this phrase, and she heard a little clattering inside the room. Regina moved the two of them back down to the square, and a few seconds later they were joined by Zelena. More people had began to exit their homes and the surrounding buildings, clearly with their memories of the last year in tact.

Emma turned to Regina and whispered in her ear, "What if she tries to take your heart? Mine's safe, but yours…"

"Relax." Regina replied, a sly smile forming on her face. "It's at your parents' house. I would never bring my heart to a witch fight. Now I know we haven't got nearly as much practice in as I wanted to, but we need to throw her. And keep throwing her, until I can get close enough to remove her heart. Got it?" Regina rolled up her sleeves as if preparing for battle. Emma shook her arms and legs a little, and the two women walked closer to Zelena.

"Done gossiping now, ladies?" Zelena snorted, using force to throw a few bystanders back out of their way.

"We were just deciding the best way to kill you…" Regina answered simply, continuing to walk slowly up to her sister. "Now." she exclaimed to Emma, and the two women raised their hands, succeeding in throwing Zelena back a little onto the road about 10 metres from where she was before. "Again." Regina muttered, and, gaining a little confidence, Emma felt a little more power rise in her hands as she followed Regina's instruction, with Zelena again rising and being thrown further down Main Street.

"Answer me this, greeny." Regina raised her voice at the woman who was again rising up off the ground. "Why my mother's heart?"

"Our mother's." Zelena corrected her, venom in her tone. "Pure power, sister. I need it to take you down; and who better to provide that power than the most powerful woman to ever live?"

"I think you're wrong there.." Emma joined the conversation, smiling at her girlfriend, who had a sneer forming on her lips.

"One more time," Regina whispered, "We just need to weaken her enough." Before she finished speaking, however, Zelena raised the two women a few feet into the air, dropping them on top of a nearby car. The crowd gasped, and a few of them began to move over to the car to check on the women. But still, Emma and Regina got up, and brushed themselves off, and continued in the same stead as they had before. Throw, relax. Throw, relax. After a few more tries at this, Zelena began to weaken, with it taking longer for her to get up, and the force at which she tried to move Emma and Regina was becoming markedly less. After another attempt, Zelena failed to return Emma and Regina's magic with some of her own; instead, remaining on the ground where they had dropped her. Emma and Regina gathered themselves, and walked up to her so that they were looking down on her.

"You aren't looking so good." Emma teased, in her element with Regina by her side.

"This is foolish of you, sis." Zelena smiled up at Regina in a maniacal way, as blood dripped from her lip and a gash on the side of her head. She raised one arm, and plunged it into Regina's chest. She rummaged around for a few seconds, looking more and more alarmed, before realising what Regina had done. "Hmm, clever."

"Yes, it was." Regina responded, smiling. She signalled for Emma to put her hand onto her left arm, as she pushed her right hand into Zelena's chest. She succeeded where her sister had failed, and pulled a heart, black as ashes, from her. The heartbeat rang strong in Emma's ears. She used all of her willpower to stop herself from feeling any sort of sympathy from the woman on the ground, and instead focused it on giving more strength to Regina: she had a feeling this heart wouldn't be easy to crush. "Would you look at that," Regina showed the heart to its owner, who's face was contorted in pain and anger, "rotten to the core." she muttered, before crushing the heart in her hand. Zelena writhed in pain, before collapsing on the ground in the middle of the street.

For a moment, silence fell upon the town. Not a soul made a sound. Then, slowly, someone began to clap. Then more followed; a few cheers, until the whole town was shouting and screaming in Emma and Regina's honour.

"We did it." Emma looked at Zelena's body in disbelief, before looking back up to see the relief in Regina's eyes.

"Yes, we did."

The crowds descended on Granny's, each and every one of them desperate to thank their heroes. Nobody had said a word about the two women remaining hand in hand as they entered, neither when Emma's arm draped itself around Regina's shoulder, except Ruby, who smiled to herself from the corner. After a few minutes conferring in the corner, Mary Margaret and David went to join their daughter.

"We've been talking, and.." David began, a little uncomfortable with his daughter's dating life being the topic of discussion.

"We're okay with this." Mary Margaret finished for him, smiling at her daughter. "It's your life, Emma, and from what you've shown us tonight you don't need us to protect you. You two make quite the team." She smiled unsurely at Regina, who, for the first time in a very long time, offered her a sincere smile back.

"Thanks mom, dad." Emma addressed them in order, giving each of them a small hug.

"If you ever hurt her though, Regina, you'll have us to answer for. We don't care how powerful you are." David joked; it was clear to him that Regina would never dream of hurting his daughter.

"Understood." Regina nodded, still smiling.

"Hey, everyone, three cheers for our saviours!" one of the dwarves called out, and everyone joined in cheering their victory.

"So, what now?" Regina turned to Emma, putting her hand once again into hers.

"Let's go and get our son."

"And then?"

"Back home."

A/N: Tadaaaa! Yes, I know the last line is horrendously cheesy, but I wouldn't have forgave myself if I didn't get the title in there somewhere:p

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